The range of hairstyles for the men is very interesting. You have guys who look very "medieval" like Ned Stark did, but you also have characters with fairly modern haircuts, like Jamie Lannister, Little Finger.

I wonder if those haircuts existed in medieval Europe and just were not used very much.

I feel like I need to read a recap of tonight's episode or something. I'm losing track of the various stories and I didn't understand why some things happened at the end of the episode. I wish I had read the books.

was it the varys and littlefinger thing? littlefinger wanted to marry sansa because she may be the next heir to winterfell. varys tried to foil his plans by having her marry margery's brother. (and then sansa was crying at the end because she should have taken littlefinger up on his offer of escape. but i'm sure she didn't know he wanted to marry her)littlefinger found out that roz was a double agent, so offered her up to joffrey for target practice.

I didn't get Sansa crying when the boat sailed away...why would she be that bummed littlefinger was bailing if she was supposed to marry loras? also who could not want to marry tyrion?

She'd just been told that she's been ordered to marry Tyrion instead of Loras, and didn't want to marry a dwarf who was easily twice her age.

I have to say in this episode the torture scenes made me seriously uncomfortable. I kind of skimmed them in the book, and felt that they were a bit on the graphic side for me in the series.

_________________"Your mother was a superstitious hamster, and your father smelled of elderberry (right before he died of an untreated infection). Now go away, before we taunt you with your credulous magical thinking a second time!" - Desdemona

Was it just the way the scene was shot or did the wildlings scale the wall with only a few people? I thought their plan was to take an army through it? What do the gain by fighting the "crows" or are they just looking to get south to escape the white walkers? If the wildling taking care of the Stark boy didn't have to climb the wall to get south why did the they? The map in the opening credits looks like there is a body of water that spans the area north and south of the wall.